Media + non-US news Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

November 10, 2009

Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media

Venezuelan government controls over 700 media outlets

Argentine journalists, academics and ruling party lawmakers met Monday to challenge the conclusions of an international media group that Latin American leaders are exerting too much control over the press.

US State Dept ‘deplores assault’ on Cuban bloggers

November 6, 2009

TLN en Español, Canada’s first nationally available 24-hour all-Spanish channel, has launched on Shaw Digital TV, in the Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg markets.

November 4, 2009

A news reporter who wrote about violent drug crimes has been strangled in the northern Mexican state of Durango – El Tiempo de Durango journalist Jose Bladimir Antuna

October 12, 2009

Argentina’s Senate overwhelmingly approved a law that will transform the nation’s media landscape on Saturday, and President Cristina Fernandez quickly signed it into law.

October 2, 2009

Muckraking in Latin America: Upside Down World Receives Three Project Censored Awards This Year

September 28, 2009

Family Guy cartoon banned in Venezuela

September 22, 2009

Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho seeks protection for new threats

September 21, 2009

The future of freedom of speech in Latin America is being subjected to the “harassment” of policies designed “to put limits on it that are being repeated around the region,” Gonzalo Marroquin, vice president of the Inter-American Press Association, said at the conclusion of a forum held in Caracas.

September 18, 2009

Former presidents from Peru and Bolivia joined newspaper editors from across the Americas on Friday in condemning what they call a series of attempts by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and some of his allies, to clamp down on the news media.

September 10, 2009

A U.S.-based journalist watchdog group called Thursday for an end to what it described as “systemic harassment” of bloggers and independent journalists in Cuba, and urged the international community to step up its lobbying on the bloggers’ behalf.

September 1, 2009

Ecuador’s president is threatening to close a major television network after it aired a tape of a conversation between him and a member of the assembly that drafted a new constitution last year.

August 21, 2009

Report: 52 Mexican reporters killed in last decade

August 14, 2009

Report: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez aggressively seizing control of media

August 12, 2009

Police have accused a TV presenter in Brazil of being involved in organised drug trafficking and ordering killings to get rid of rivals and boost ratings.

August 5, 2009

Cuban media makes unusual mention of ‘94 protest

Julian Lago, Icon of Journalism in Democratic Spain, Dies

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa says “many” radio and TV frequencies will revert to state control due to what he’s calling irregularities.

President Daniel Ortega, who led the ’70s Sandinista revolution, rewards sympathetic news outlets and punishes critical ones, observers say. One target is a member of the prominent Chamorro family.

August 4, 2009

El conocido periodista y político José Pardo Llada, legendaria figura de la Cuba republicana, se encuentra hospitalizado en estado grave en la ciudad colombiana de Cali

August 3, 2009

Venezuelan regulators revoked the broadcast rights of 34 radio stations on Friday, deepening a rift between President Hugo Chavez’s government and the private media.

July 31, 2009

Telemundo, Televisa Launch Cable Net in Mexico City – Telemundo Cable Network to Offer U.S. Broadcaster’s Fare

July 1, 2009

Honduras new government is censoring journalists

June 25, 2009

Journalists reporting, and surviving, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

June 19, 2009

More jump ship at Mexico City’s English-language newspaper

June 4, 2009

Nicaragua’s culture, arts and music scene is the focus of a new magazine launched by two American designers living in the country’s capital, Managua. Hecho

June 3, 2009

Mexico’s only national English-language daily newspaper, the News, based in Mexico City, was bought by a Mexican media company, and dozens of staffers were laid off over the weekend

June 1, 2009

Journalists covering Mexico get survival training

May 29, 2009

Argentina: Clarín Media Group Forces Removal of Videos from YouTube

Mexico’s top prosecutor on Thursday offered a $380,000 reward for information in the kidnapping and murder of a newspaper reporter who was found beaten and dead in an irrigation canal in northern Mexico this week.

Mexico: Television Comedy Show Makes Light of Actor’s Mental Disability

May 27, 2009

he “imminent” closure of Globovisión, the private sector channel which makes no secret of its opposition to President Hugo Chávez, was announced Monday by a middle-ranking figure of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).

May 7, 2009

Standoff between Evo Morales, Bolivian media outlets escalates – Bolivian President Evo Morales claimed his government has been targeted for media persecution, but threats and assaults on journalists have increased.

April 3, 2009

Austin anchor Fred Cantú runs online Mexico media directory

March 13, 2009

Teleton MexAmerica Raises Largest One Day Amount to Date Using Mobile Accord’s Text Message Donation Platform- mGive.com

February 1, 2009

Voces Bolivianas Makes “Web 2.0 for Everyone”

January 21, 2009

El presidente Hugo Chávez anunció el martes que publicará en la prensa local una columna de opinión para orientar a sus seguidores, emulando así a su estrecho aliado cubano Fidel Castro.

December 15, 2008

Mexican Playboy Magazine Apologizes for Nude Virgin Mary Cover

December 12, 2008

Playboy publica fotos que representan a la Virgen semi-desnuda

December 10, 2008

Only three of 25 reporters who died violently in the last two years in Mexico were killed because of their work, the country’s special prosecutor for crimes against journalists said Tuesday.

Brazil’s Newspaper Industry Booming

December 6, 2008

Journalists become targets in Mexico’s drug war

Periodistas nuevo blanco de nacrotraficantes en México

December 5, 2008

Media advertising campaign targets violence against journalists in Mexico

November 25, 2008

New York Times’ Latin Reach to be inserted in Brazils´Folha

Violence Against Journalists Grows in Mexico’s Drug War – Latest Victim Gunned Down in Front of Home

November 19, 2008

Spain Papers Review – Wednesday November 19 2008

November 18, 2008

Newspaper offices in northern Mexico attacked with grenades

November 17, 2008

Spain Papers Review – Monday November 17 2008

November 6, 2008

Spain Newspaper Review – Thursday November 6 2008

October 27, 2008

En lo que fue su reporte financiero para el tercer trimestre de este año, Grupo Televisa reportó un aumento en sus ventas netas en un 21 por ciento, a $12.459 millones de pesos, en comparación al mismo período del año pasado.

Spain Papers Review – Monday October 27 2008

October 23, 2008

A Mexican judge on Wednesday ordered a suspect in the 2006 killing of U.S. journalist-activist Bradley Roland Will to stand trial on homicide charges.

October 20, 2008

Fallece director de Ediciones de El País de Uruguay – Eduardo Scheck

Another Front in the Conflict: Colombian Government’s Propaganda vs. Indigenous Media Perspectives

September 3, 2008

Mexican Environmental Journalists Improve Coverage

Doris Gibson, who 58 years ago founded Peru’s leading news magazine, has died at the age of 98. Her strength of character and determination helped the magazine withstand military dictatorships and repressive governments, as Dan Collyns reports.

August 11, 2008

Playhouse Disney Channel arranca en México

Novela de Globo bate récord de audiencia en Brasil

August 5, 2008

Four Spanish publications are now available for London’s booming Latin American community. – Canada

A team of journalists supported by the PulitzerCenter is currently reporting from the Petén region of Guatemala

July 27, 2008

Divide a la prensa española visita de Hugo Chávez

July 26, 2008

Cuban dissident writer Raul Rivero has won a prestigious Spanish journalism award for his work as a journalist reporting on his native country, where he spent two years in jail on charges of trying to undermine President Fidel Castro’s government.

July 24, 2008

Photographer Victor Salas was beaten by a police officer while he was covering the incidents that occurred during President Michelle Bachelet´s speech at Congress on May 21st of this year. – Chile

July 21, 2008

Televisa reporta ganancias en el 2T

Mipcom unveils Spanish focus – Telemundo’s Santana joins speaker lineup

July 17, 2008

PENELOPE CRUZ TAKES AIM AT ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ SPANISH MEDIA

U.S. studies Ecuadorean’s asylum petition – Estefano Isaias, television station owner

July 15, 2008

What is the Venezuelan News Media Actually Like? – 21 Caracas Daily Newspapers, Diverse Community Radio and TV Stations, Disprove the US-Propagated Myths

July 10, 2008

Mexican television to send 200 staff members to Beijing 2008

June 12, 2008

Mexico: Murder of Indigenous Reporters Fuels Hatred, Division

June 10, 2008

Note, head found near Mexican newspaper office

June 4, 2008

Argentina’s La Nacion Engages Readers By Making them Writers – Portada

May 29, 2008

Cuban Newspaper Pushes Beyond Party Line : NPR

AP opens photo exhibit, workshop for Cuban students and photojournalists

May 28, 2008

Media Moves: Noticiero Azteca América lays off 29, moves to Mexico City

Disney Channel Spain goes free

May 14, 2008

CPJ condemns murder of Guatemalan journalist – Jorge Mérida Pérez

Televisa Publishing Expands Research into Latin American Media

April 22, 2008

Mexican Journalists Still Under Siege in 2008

March 26, 2008

TV Azteca Anounces Alliance with Latitud TV to Transmit its Successful Programming in Guatemala

March 24, 2008

Azteca América to Launch News Studio

March 22, 2008

Telemundo’s sweet surrender – The Spanish-language station gave up its valiant attempt to form a third broadcast network in Mexico.

March 17, 2008

Telemundo Is Said to Have Struck Deal in Mexico with NBC Universal

March 5, 2008

Periodismo Ciudadano::Citizen Journalism Spreads in Spanish-Speaking World | PBS

February 5, 2008

Venezuelan press in polarized times

Mexico’s Televisa eyes Colombian TV channel-source

January 22, 2008

Loss of news talk show dismays Mexicans – Supporters of journalist Carmen Aristegui say the cancellation of her radio program poses a threat to the country’s move toward greater democracy.

Turner Latin America, Fashion TV in New Deal

January 17, 2008

Cuban television shows baseball defectors for first time – Orlando Hernandez

January 15, 2008

Infoshop News – Review: La Barrikada – Spanish language journal created from the love, rage, and desire of living alongside the barricades of Oaxaca, Mexico during the summer and fall of 2006

January 14, 2008

In Mexico, reporters learn not to name names

TV station illegally holds five of its journalists for 60 hours – Reporters sans frontières – Argentina

January 8, 2008

The Many Sides Of Venezuelan Media

December 11, 2007

Venezuela newspaper blames government for lack of dollars to buy newsprint

Mexican reporter gunned down – Michoacan

December 10, 2007

Radio Realidad: The Popular Voice in Honduras

November 30, 2007

RIGHTS-MEXICO: Supreme Court Lets Governor Off the Hook – (the Lydia Cacho story)

November 27, 2007

A Mexican Supreme Court judge concludes public officials violated journalist’s human rights – (the Lydia Cacho story)

November 12, 2007

Artear Argentina Announces Lineup for ATF

October 29, 2007

Bush gets rare exposure in Cuba media

October 22, 2007

TLN Telelatino Launches TLN en Espanol – first Canadian-made all Hispanic television channel

October 10, 2007

Telemundo brings Korean drama to Lat Am

October 3, 2007

Radio broadcaster fired in Spain for failing to speak Catalan

September 10, 2007

Cisneros Group Releases Study on Effects of RCTV Closure

July 24, 2007

Mexicos Grupo Televisa eyes national cable system

July 17, 2007

Televisa Secures Approval for Cable Platform Acquisition

July 16, 2007

Televisa, Azteca Duopoly Tested – Mexican Supreme Court Ruling Reverses Sweetheart Law

June 28, 2007

Telelatino Sells Ads for Stock (to JumpTV in Canada)

June 26, 2007

Australian Big Brother producer apologizes for program Mexican government called offensive

June 24, 2007

Univision journalist puzzles over deaths of 400 Mexican women

May 31, 2007

Venevisión flying under Chávez’s radar

May 30, 2007

Venezuela Calls for Probe of CNN, Globovision ‘Lies’

April 18, 2007

Editor abducted by heavily armed group in Sonora is second Mexican journalist to disappear this year

March 12, 2007

Nuevo Mundo Television – A new Canadian channel 100% Spanish

March 6, 2007

TBS sets Buenos Aires base

February 7, 2007

Mexico’s Televisa to lure viewers with lottery

February 5, 2007

An evil few dare write in Nuevo Laredo

Spanish television reigns as king of product plugs

February 2, 2007

Shut-down Mexican College Newspaper Returns to the Presses

January 31, 2007

Students Say Mexican Paper Was Censored

January 23, 2007

Variety.com – Mogul Gonzalez buys 80% of Canal 9 – Exec takes stake of Argentine broadcaster

January 12, 2007

War on Mexican reporters

January 10, 2007

In first TV show, Mexican ex-presidential candidate proposes new law, criticizes government

January 5, 2007

Ugly Betty to hit UK screens

January 4, 2007

Violent Latino gangs are spreading across Canada; one man’s dangerous mission to save their souls

December 28, 2006

Mexican journalists caught in the crossfire of citys drug-cartel wars

December 12, 2006

GE says more competition needed in Mexican TV

December 6, 2006

Mexico’s Newest TV Drama Is a Bid to Block a Third Broadcaster – Grupo Casa Saba y Mr. Saba’s role

New newspaper seeks Spanish speaking audience – Belize

November 8, 2006

Telelatino to Launch Hispanic Channel – Canada

October 26, 2006

Media watchdog urges Mexican authorities to find missing journalist

October 16, 2006

Mexican watchdog halts Televisa deal

September 12, 2006

Fox’s Term Most Dangerous Ever For Journalists in Mexico

September 5, 2006

The Unapologetic Mexican: Third Bomb Attack on Mérida’s Por Esto!

August 10, 2006

Editor of Mexican crime magazine is found murdered

July 26, 2006

Bloggings by boz: One year of Telesur

July 21, 2006

Media group says Chavez silencing critics

July 17, 2006

Bloggings by boz: New El Tiempo website. Colombia’s main newspaper

May 11, 2006

Paper adds Spanish column for newcomers to Manitoba city, Canada

May 8, 2006

El Salvador Ducks U.S. Immigration Debate

May 1, 2006

The Tail Wags the Dog: Mexico’s “Televisa Law” Another Nail in the Coffin of Fox’s Legacy

April 24, 2006

Mexican city’s journalists scared silent

April 20, 2006

New law allows Mexican journalists to protect sources

April 19, 2006

Commission appointed to investigate arrest of Mexican journalist

April 5, 2006

Public radio in Mexico protests new broadcast law by repeating single song all day

April 4, 2006

Mexican Papers Probe Missing Journalists

March 31, 2006

New laws likely to extend Televisa’s domination of Mexican media

March 16, 2006

New Law Would Further “Corporatization’ of Mexican Media

March 4, 2006

Mexican journalists scared into silence. Attack on Nuevo Laredo paper highlights dangers to reporters, democracy.

March 2, 2006

VIOLENCE AND FEAR WREAK HAVOC ON MEXICAN BORDER CITY’S MEDIA

February 23, 2006

Proyecto 40 Presents a Pluralistic Television Alternative in DF, Mexico

February 17, 2006

TV Azteca Receives License to Transmit the Azteca 13 Signal in Canada

December 19, 2005

New TV channel gives blacks a greater voice in Brazil

December 16, 2005

Foes stall Mexican ‘Televisa Law’

December 6, 2005

Televisa sees channels starting next year

December 5, 2005

Rogers Digital Launches Hispanic Programming. Canada